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This resource aims to describe the burden of fires in displaced persons settlements and identify interventions/innovations that might address gaps in current humanitarian guidelines. The resource...
This guideline aims to promote best practices of prevention, preparedness and response that will reduce fire-related hazards among the residents of informal settlements, residential and non-...
Fire-related injuries are strongly associated with low-income and informal/temporary settlements, which are growing rapidly in an urbanising world. Fire policy and mitigation strategies in poorer...
Access to energy in the modern world has become a basic human rights but many people live without access to electrictiy in the world. Thus every person affected by conflict and natural disaster...
This topic highlights the experiences and the plights handicapped people go through and the community within which they live in. It highlights the plight of the elderly, women with physical...
The green recovery and reconstruction toolkit is a series of 10 stand alone modules that address a wide range of topics and topics vital to disaster response and consists of-1. Content paper...
This resource looks at the ways in which private sectors can contribute to disaster prevention and response while focusing on the cooperation as the key factor in achieving the set goals.
This presentation covers topics including: Gender analytic tools; Framework for gender analytic tools; A worked example of the framework; Using the framework; Participatory data gathering methods...
This newsletter highlights the following topics: Introduction, the energy problem; How much energy is being used, at what cost and to whom; What do the numbers tell us?; What is the basis of the...
This publication highlights the following topics: Energy advocacy; Millenium development goals; Sustaining life and livelihoods; The world summit on sustainable development; Boiling point.